Thursday, 26 September 2013

Will the meek ever inherit the world?

Will the meek ever inherit the world?

Not while they remain impotent in the face of Islamist
slaughter.

Original Thinking by Barry Shaw.

Christians are being slaughtered across the Islamic crescent
of the Middle East and down into Africa. We hear of daily outrages against
Christians and their churches. Two Islamic suicide bombers blew themselves up
outside an ancient church in Peshawar in Pakistan killing eighty one Christian
worshippers. This is yet another bloody assault against non-Muslims in the name
of Islam that has plagued Pakistan for over a decade.

In Egypt it is estimated that over two hundred churches have
been attacked and destroyed by Muslims. Christians have been killed and many
others are fleeing Egypt. Morsi, the failed Muslim Brotherhood leader of Egypt,
blamed Christians for his downfall. This led to a rage of violence targeting
Christians in their homes and in their places of worship.

In Nairobi’s Westgate Mall, non-Muslims were selected for
execution for not being Muslims. Fortunately, Israeli Jews managed to escape
the carnage leaving Christians to be shot to death for not knowing the name of
Mohammed’s mother.

These are only a few examples of the thousands that plague
the Islamic world.

Closer to home, Bethlehem, when under Israeli control, had a
Christian population in excess of eighty percent. Since Israel handed authority
over to the Palestinians, the Christian population in this significantly
Christian holy town has reduced to less than twenty percent, and a number of
those are priest, nuns, and administrators of their religious shrines.

Professor Justus Reid Weiner of the Jerusalem Center for
Public Affairs has documented the human rights abuses perpetrated against
Christians in Palestinian society. This has led to a fall in numbers down to
less than 1.7% of the general population. Their plight, he writes, is down to
the adoption of Sharia law in the Palestinian Authority Constitution. Moreover,
he says, they feel abandoned by their church leaders who, instead of protecting
them, prefer to curry favor with the Palestinian leadership.

It is the failure of the Christian leadership globally that
is a worrying part of the persecution of their co-religionists.

Just as secular and moderate Muslims have, generally, chosen
to remain silent in the face of the genocidal violence of Islamists, so
prominent world Christian leaders and churches are turning the other cheek to
the slaughter of their fellow men and women.

In South Africa, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and the South
African Council of Churches prefer to side with the religion that is killing
their flock in an unholy alliance against Israel. They have nothing to say
about the Islamic bloody rampage that is creeping out of the Middle East down into
Sudan, Somalia, Nigeria, Kenya, and in their direction. They give wholehearted fervent
support for the demonizers and delegitimizers of Israel even as their fellow
Christians are screaming out for their help and salvation from the brutal hands
of these people. But their voices are
silent. They continue to praise the anti-Israel extremists who organize ‘Israel
Apartheid Week’ even as the Arabs perpetrate real apartheid, murder, and
destruction against the people they have been appointed to protect. The shame,
the fraud, and the crime of their mistake is demonstrated by Israel as being
the one country in across the crescent of North Africa and the Middle East in
which the Christian population has grown and prospered. Even in Lebanon the
Christians quake in fear, those who are left, of course.

While Christians were being gunned down, knifed, beheaded,
blown up, live in fear in their thousands throughout the Middle East including
Syria and into Africa, during the Feat of Tabernacles over five thousand
Christians were joyously expressing their love of Israel and Jews as they
paraded proudly and freely in the streets of Jerusalem.

Maybe that is because they know that Israel is the true and
faithful guardian of their holy places in the Holy Land. They also share a
secret with Israel that seems to have been missed by most of their leaders back
home, that both of our faiths are under a clear and present threat from a
religion that has one global ambition – to kill or to subjugate non-Muslims.

We are in a war for our very survival, both Christians and
Jews. To echo the words of Jerusalem
Post Op-Ed editor, Seth Frantzman, Islamism should be made a crime against
humanity (“It’s time to define Islamism as a crime against humanity” Jerusalem
Post, 23 September, 2013), and not appeased. Not only would this protect Jews
and Christians, but it would also safeguard the interests of voiceless Muslims
who do not subscribe to the murderous crusading voice of Islam.

Why am I, an Israeli Jew, be writing this article? Why is it
that Seth Frantzman, another Israeli Jew, the one to propose that Islamism be
outlawed?

Why aren't these words resounding from church pulpits, from
the Vatican, from the parliaments of the Christians and Muslims, from Muslim
lobbying groups, from world bodies?
Well, to begin with, it’s because they are in denial. When was the last
time, if ever, you heard anyone in the Obama Administration refer to this
global slaughter as Islamic terrorism? Never!

As for the weakness of the Christian Church, they need to
find the moral courage to confront this evil that is afflicting their
parishioners.

All have failed to raise the issue and left the world bereft
of any remedy.

The deep heart of this Islamic terror is not deprivation, or
oppression, as liberal progressive academics and politicians would have us believe.
It is all about religious malevolent venom, a dark hatred of the other, a dangerous
ideology to impose a religious creed by coercion, force, violence and terror.

So tell the progressive liberals and think tank ‘experts’ to
stop examining their navels for scabs in our body politic and face the obvious
truth.

Voices have been muzzled by official secular appeasement,
and the charge of “Islamaphobia” against anyone expressing their fear.
If Islamaphobia is the fear of Islam there is genuine cause for that fear.

The first to adopt Frentzman’s Law should be the secular
and moderate Muslims who occasionally tell us that what Islamists are doing is
not the real Islam.

We non-believers are so busy being attacked and
slaughtered in the name of Islam that we cannot accept that argument. We know
who is targeting and killing us, and they are Islamists. So, non-violent
Muslims, the ones without an agenda for our destruction, should be the first to
promote this law to reject terror and the imposition of Sharia law in the name
of their religion on non-compliant societies.

To do so would lead to mutual respect and peaceful
co-existence. Remaining silent proves they are siding with our enemy, simply
biding their time until the moment they decide to join the army of Islam, raise
their sword, and cry ‘Allah Akbar!’

The call for Sharia in the name of Allah should not be a
part of democratic debate. Neither should it be perceived as freedom of speech
or worship in any democratic society. It should be seen as a political and
religious imposition of an ideology as alien as fascism. Like fascism and
anti-Semitism, it should be placed beyond the pale and outlawed as a crime
against humanity and a free society. Muslims in free societies should go about
their life without fear that they are being taught sedition against the society
in which they live. Non-violent Muslims, I am sure, would accept to live within
such a framework in which they are free to practice their religion in peace and
harmony with their non-Muslim neighbors.

This template for harmonious living and mutual respect would
make incidents like 9/11, 7/7, and Westgate Mall unthinkable sins in such a
peaceful environment.